When is Emancipation Before Age of 16 Possible

(Minimum wage earning ADULTS are not held to the same standards as a child wanting emancipation - you should be able to grasp why)

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Quoting Dogmatique

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(Minimum wage earning ADULTS are not held to the same standards as a child wanting emancipation - you should be able to grasp why)

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I thought as an emancipated teen you earn the same rights as adults. I imagine why minimum wage would be different for teens, but why is different for emancipated teens? That doesn't make sense to me when I've read so many times that if you're emancipated you earn the same rights as adults except for marriage, alcohol, smoking, etc.

It's about need. For example - your parents were both killed in a tragic accident and you need the legal capacity to keep the power on, that sort of thing.

A minor is expected to be supported by their parents. An adult is not. Therefore if an adult needs help from the State, s/he will be able to get help. But if a minor needs help? No - that's the parents' job to support the minor, not that of the taxpayers.

And that's only *touching* on it.

You don't qualify, I'm afraid.

Peter, you asked a question; When is emancipation before age of 16 possible?

The answer is, never. That's not negativity; that's legal fact. UNDER THE LAW you cannot be emancipated if you are younger than 16, and you cannot be emancipated even then unless you can show the court a history of self support. That does not mean, I'll get a job and place to live; that means, I have a job and a place to live and here are my pay stubs showing my income and here are my rent receipts showing the rent I am already paying and here are the utility bills in my name and here is my last report card showing all A's and here is my budget to show what I pay for food and clothes and school and how I will manage when something unexpected happens.

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Quoting cbg

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Peter, you asked a question; When is emancipation before age of 16 possible?

The answer is, never. That's not negativity; that's legal fact. UNDER THE LAW you cannot be emancipated if you are younger than 16, and you cannot be emancipated even then unless you can show the court a history of self support. That does not mean, I'll get a job and place to live; that means, I have a job and a place to live and here are my pay stubs showing my income and here are my rent receipts showing the rent I am already paying and here are the utility bills in my name and here is my last report card showing all A's and here is my budget to show what I pay for food and clothes and school and how I will manage when something unexpected happens.

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That's basically what I needed to know. What I don't need is someone telling me that I'm not good enough for it, and I have "no idea".

Who said you weren't "good enough"?

Nobody here.

I have no idea where you're getting that.

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(Minimum wage earning ADULTS are not held to the same standards as a child wanting emancipation - you should be able to grasp why)

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I just might post. This is what I mean, please check step two and warnings: http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Emancipated-as-a-Teen.

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Who said you weren't "good enough"?

Nobody here.

I have no idea where you're getting that.

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Maybe no one said it, but you and I can both see it's implied.

Actually no. What was not just implied, but said quite clearly, was that you do not QUALIFY.

But read into it what you will, Peter.

You STILL don't qualify to be emancipated. Understand?

Here's the legal long and short of it: You are too young to be legally emancipated. So, that option is right out. In three years you can look at this again.

In the meantime, if you are being physically or emotionally harmed by the actions of your parent, then you can speak to a counselor and it is possible the state might intervene to place you into foster care while they investigate. If your story is true, it's tragic that you have to be the adult, and may be sufficient to make you a ward of the court, but your options do not include living on your own even WITH "adult" supervision. No apartment manager is going to allow a 13 year old to live on their own even if an adult pays for the apartment. And if the authorities catch wind of it, they'll be all over everyone involved!

When you are 16 and have managed to maintain good grades, have a productive job and can support yourself, then maybe the court might entertain a petition for emancipation. But, as has been explained to you, emancipation is very rarely granted and usually to help those kids who - through no fault of their own - are already living on their own.

Good luck. And speak to someone if you are having trouble coping or feel at risk in any way.

The state of California, and only the state of California, will under extremely rare circumstances emancipate a 14 year old, but only in extremely rare circumstances. In order to qualify, you'd better spend your spare time as an extra in the Harry Potter movies (or would it be Hunger Games now?). In any case, despite what Wikipedia (and in some cases, the state of California itself) evidently believes, the laws of California do not apply outside of California. Your state will not emancipate anyone younger than 16.

And I stand by my statement that you have no idea how difficult this would be, or how much you would need to be earning. If you did, you wouldn't be here asking this question. But no one said you weren't 'good enough' - that is your own perception.